The Avalanche on Thursday announced it would hold a reunion of the 1995-96 Colorado Stanley Cup championship team on Oct. 6-7, in conjunction with the regular-season opener against the Chicago Blackhawks at the Pepsi Center.

The team didn’t name which players from that season, the franchise’s first in Denver after the move from Quebec, would attend and participate, and said details would be released later.

“It should be a very unique event, with members of the first Avalanche team reunited along with the 2010-11 edition,” Avalanche president Pierre Lacroix said in a team release.

“That 1996 Stanley Cup team created a winning tradition in a very short period of time, setting the standard for anyone who has ever worn the ‘A’ to follow.”

Current Avalanche captain Adam Foote is the only player from that team still active in the NHL, unless unsigned veteran center Stephane Yelle, who finished up last season with Colorado, catches on with another team.

Joe Sakic, the 1995-96 captain, lives in Denver after his 2009 retirement. The team’s other marquee players were goalie Patrick Roy and center Peter Forsberg. Roy is a part-owner, general manager and coach of the major junior hockey’s Quebec Remparts, and Forsberg still is considering another comeback attempt in the NHL in the wake of his long-running battle with foot problems.

A graduate of Wheat Ridge High School and the University of Colorado, Terry Frei has been named a state's sportswriter of the year seven times -- four times in Colorado and three times in Oregon. He's the author of seven books, including the novel "Olympic Affair" about Colorado's Glenn Morris, the 1936 Olympic decathlon champion; and "Third Down and a War to Go," about the 1942 football national champion Wisconsin Badgers and the players' subsequent World War II heroism.

WASHINGTON — Thirty games into the 82-game NHL season, and nearly six weeks after the Matt Duchene trade, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic discussed the state of his team before Tuesday’s 5-2 loss at the Washington Capitals.